Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. v. Village of Shorewood

The plaintiff urges, first, that sec. 905 of the Statutes of 1915, being the same as in the Statutes of 1917, is unconstitutional for the reason that it does not limit the special assessment to the actual benefits received by the property owner, and that the statute and the proceedings thereunder, therefore, are in violation of the Fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution and of sec. 13, art. I, of the state constitution, which section provides: “The property of no person shall be taken for public use without just compensation.”

*315That portion of said sec. 905 applicable herein reads as…